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The pasta phase in core-collapse supernova matter (finite temperatures and fixed proton fractions) is studied within relativistic mean field models. Two different calculations are used for comparison, the Thomas-Fermi (TF) and the…

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Flavor conversion can affect the neutrino-driven delayed explosion mechanism of collapsing massive stars, altering the efficiency of shock revival. We perform core-collapse supernova simulations in spherical symmetry for a set of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Mariam Gogilashvili , Irene Tamborra

Fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) is a possible game-changing ingredient in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) theory. In this paper, we examine the impact of FFC on explosive nucleosynthesis by including the effects of FFC in conjunction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Shin-ichiro Fujimoto , Hiroki Nagakura

We assert that non-linear features of fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) can be qualitatively different between core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs). This argument arises from recent global FFC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

In dense astrophysical environments, notably core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, neutrino-neutrino forward scattering can spawn flavor conversion on very short scales. Scattering with the background medium can impact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-31 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Ian Padilla-Gay , Georg G. Raffelt

We assess the occurrence of fast neutrino flavor instabilities in two three-dimensional state-of-the-art core-collapse supernova simulations performed using a two-moment three-species neutrino transport scheme: one with an exploding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Sajad Abbar , Francesco Capozzi , Robert Glas , H. -Thomas Janka , Irene Tamborra

In the standard model of core-collapse supernova (CCSN), all neutrinos are assumed to be in pure flavor eigenstates in CCSN cores, but the assumption becomes invalid if neutrino distributions are unstable to flavor conversions. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-31 Masamichi Zaizen , Sherwood Richers , Hiroki Nagakura , Hideyuki Suzuki , Chinami Kato

The question of what ingredients characterize the quasi-steady state of fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) is one of the long-standing riddles in neutrino oscillation. Addressing this issue is necessary for accurate modeling of neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

We bring to light a novel mechanism through which turbulent matter density fluctuations can induce collective neutrino flavor conversions in core-collapse supernovae, i.e., the leakage of flavor instabilities between different Fourier…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Sajad Abbar

The pasta phase in core-collapse supernova matter (finite temperatures and fixed proton fractions) is studied within relativistic mean field models. Three different calculations are used for comparison, the Thomas-Fermi (TF), the Coexisting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-08 Helena Pais , Silvia Chiacchiera , Constanca Providência

The flavor evolution of neutrinos in dense astrophysical sources, such as core-collapse supernovae or compact binary mergers, is non-linear due to the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos among themselves. Recent work in this context…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-23 Marie Cornelius , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

Fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) can nontrivially alter neutrino radiation field in core-collapase supernovae (CCSN) and binary neutron-star merger (BNSM) remnants. However, its interplay with global geometry remains poorly understood…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-16 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

The neutrino fast flavor instability dominates the evolution of neutrino flavor within the engines of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. However, theoretical models of neutrino flavor change that include many-body quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Zoha Laraib , Sherwood Richers

We present a comprehensive study on the occurrences of the collisional flavor instability (CFI) and the fast flavor instability (FFI) of neutrinos based on a two-dimensional (2D) core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulation performed with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Ryuichiro Akaho , Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen , Shoichi Yamada

Neutrino-neutrino forward scatterings potentially induce collective neutrino oscillation in dense neutrino gases in astrophysical sites such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSN) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSM). In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

We examine the effect of neutrino flavor transformation by the fast flavor instability (FFI) on long-term mass ejection from accretion disks formed after neutron star mergers. Neutrino emission and absorption in the disk set the composition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Rodrigo Fernández , Sherwood Richers , Nicole Mulyk , Steven Fahlman

We investigate key methodologies of Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook subgrid modeling for neutrino fast flavor conversions (FFC) in core-collapse supernova based on spherically symmetric Boltzmann radiation hydrodynamics simulations. We first examine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-25 Ryuichiro Akaho , Hiroki Nagakura , Shoichi Yamada

We present a systematic study of fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) with both small-scale and large-scale numerical simulations in spherical symmetry. We find that FFCs can, in general, reach a quasi-steady state, and these features in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen

We make a strong case that the fast neutrino-flavor conversion, one of the collective flavor oscillation modes, commonly occurs in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). It is confirmed in the numerical data obtained in realistic simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Taiki Morinaga , Hiroki Nagakura , Chinami Kato , Shoichi Yamada

In astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs), neutrinos potentially experience substantial flavor mixing due to the refractive effects of neutrino self-interactions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen , Lucas Johns , Ryuichiro Akaho , Shoichi Yamada